The Idiocies of Still.Looking

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For fun~~ I love spoofing the charm case.

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For fun~~ I love spoofing the charm case.

It's your avi now...

That is just sooo cuuuuute! >w<

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I made my mind up on the spot. xD

I was gonna put in Heiji's bubble-- "I did NOT!" but he isn't blushing (the way that's kawaiiiiii~) so there xP

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Wheee! *glomps bluekaitou*

I like the Kazuha one. ^^

Ideas for drawings like that normally hit me when I'm doing something totally unrelated. Like watching House, for example. xP

Went downhill after season 2, careened off a cliff after season 3.

Edit: Shot itself in the foot after season 4 (even House couldn't solve that case!)

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Season 5's run-up to the ender-- Both Sides Now-- was cool. xD I'm still having a marathon of Season 5's earlier cases though~

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New chapter out~

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The shot guy's health was bad, but nothing the doctors couldn't handle, the police had been notified, and I had snatched the phone and switched it with a note that I'd already taken it, and also taken note that the Mercedes was gone. Now Inspector Nakamori was hovering behind the first division people who were discussing Hakuba's safety. I was seated on a first row chair, listening too.

"We don't have any leads," one of them said. "The kidnapper didn't leave anything."

"Except the phone," another debated.

"We'll have to trust Kid," Nakamori butted in. "He has the phone."

I bowed my head, as the first officer said, "Can we trust him? I mean, that Hakuba-kun has given him trouble before."

"Hey, look behind the card he left," I pointed out. "Looks like there's something else on it."

"Eh?" He flipped it over.

I whistled. "I thought he hated him." Just a hint of sarcasm~

Nakamori snatched it and read it. He looked surprised.

"We'll have to accept," Nakamori said. "Kid has the only means of contact."

"That's smart of him," I said, smirking. "Anyway, the kidnappers didn't say that the police couldn't be involved. Good luck, Inspector Nakamori."

"Wait," he held back my arm. "Aoko said you were looking around. What did you see?"

"Oh-- er," I muttered, "there was a red Mercedes with no plate near the gates. I checked a while ago; it's gone."

Nakamori rushed to the windows and looked down. "Is that the car?" he asked me, confused.

I stared. "The very same," even more confusing.. the sheen, the lines, the same position.

"Go check out that car," Nakamori told the officers. "Yeah, the Mercedes..."

Insane as I was, I jumped from the window to the nearest tree, and started climbing down.

"Oi, Kaito--"

.. but I was already on the ground. I flashed him a thumbs-up, grinning, and ran to the car.

I walked around it slowly, trying to find something unusual, the way my three detective friends did. Not that hard, though. As I passed the passenger seat, there was Hakuba's kidnapper: bleeding from a deep wound.

Hakuba was nowhere to be found.

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Mwahahahaha. xD

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As a treat, here are two chapters.. but it seems no one's reading >_>

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The police arrived about three minutes after me.

"There's your kidnapper," I said grimly, them staring at the body. "I haven't touched anything."

One of them nodded to me and went to examine the body, the other one popped open his phone and called the police and ambulance.

"Too late," the examiner said. "She's dead."

Some more police came to examine, and I had to stay.

"You found her?"

"Yes."

"She was.."

"In the backseat, just like the examiner found her. I didn't even open the door."

"Door was unlocked," he told me.

"Maybe from the murderer. If it was on the same side as the stab it'd make sense."

"It is. And I was told that this was, uh--" he flipped his memo pad. "--Hakuba Saguru-kun's kidnapper?"

"Yes. Inspector Nakamori knows about that."

"Any chance that he may have killed her?"

I grinned at that. "Of course not."

"Okay, then." He seemed to take my answer seriously, despite the laugh. "What time did you find the body?"

"Hmm.. around 7.45?"

"Okay, thank you," he said briskly, patting my shoulder. "We'll call you back if we need anything else."

I was walking back home when the phone rang. I dashed into a side street, which was miraculously empty.

"Hello?"

"Kaitou Kid," a male voice said. It sounded like song, though he was speaking. "Well, hello.. have they found the body yet?"

He knew, I thought. "Yes. Why did you kill her?"

"Jumping to conclusions," he said. "Preposterous.."

"Is Hakuba-kun okay?"

"He's fine.. he can't talk right now, so.. for him, bring me the world's most precious aquamarine. Its name is Sky," he said lazily. "Bring it to the top of Tokyo Tower by midnight.. or your friend shall perish."

He hung up.

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"I know, Kudo," I said into my hat, where I'd attached a phone. Kudo and Hattori were on the other end; it just so happened that they had a case in Osaka when I called. "You know me, I'm careful. I'm putting on the hat now. Don't talk too much."

As I put the hat on, Hattori said, "Oh, sure. You know us."

"You know why they kidnapped Hakuba, don't you?" Kudo asked.

"No, I don't," I said, glancing out the window. The sun was an inch from the horizon. "They probably thought Kid would do anything for him, or that Hakuba's weak. Either way they're wrong."

"Maybe they know Hakuba is an expert on you," Hattori said, as I put on my cape. "And will give them information."

"He wouldn't," Kudo said. "From what I know, he'd want to catch you himself."

"Speaking of," I said, "Kudo, could you give me the, uh.. whatever you call it, that thing that will enable me to talk with Hakuba through the tracker." Forgot to mention, I got it from Agasa.

"I slipped it into the right inner pocket of your Kid costume."

"Huh. That explains why there was something hard.." I pulled it out and examined it, then clipped it under my right collar. No one would notice that.

There was a sound of a creaking mattress from my hat. "Don't touch that, Kudo," Hattori warned.

"You're in his room? I thought you had a case?" It felt kinda weird talking to my hat.

"Solved," they said together. "Interesting one, too," Hattori added. "Want to hear?"

"Don't think you can," Kudo muttered. "We'll call again at 11.30.."

"Why?" I said, knowing the reason and smirking.

"Ran and Kazuha asked us to help them cook, as you very well know," Kudo snapped, "even if we couldn't. And those are their footsteps, so bye-bye."

"Conan-kun--" Ran-san started. Un-fair. Kudo hung up.

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The bottom of the sun was just disappearing as I landed silently in the smack center of the police station's helipad. Nakamori was already waiting there, and so was Aoko. Oh no. I'd have to watch my every move.

"Kaitou Kid," Nakamori shook my hand. "This is my daughter, I couldn't get her to stay at home--"

"I saw your note," she told me. "Please get Hakuba-kun back safely."

"I will." I bowed. Basic Kid protocol. I would've done it to anyone else. I smiled, before saying, "Inspector Nakamori-- the kidnapper called this afternoon. He wants the aquamarine, Sky, at the Tokyo Tower by midnight."

"Alright.." Nakamori said. He called to a nearby officer: "Figure out which museum is holding Sky. Explain the situation, and bring it here. Kid, you will take it from there?"

"My pleasure," I said. "Inspector, when he called, it seems that he knew there would be a killing-- which is, of course, the murder in the school earlier this day, discovered by, er.. Kuroba Kaito-kun?"

"Yes," he said. "After the autopsy, TOD was discovered to be around 7.30-- right after she'd gone down with Hakuba."

"TOD?" Aoko asked.

"Time of death."

At this point, the phone in my head started ringing into my earpiece. I answered it (by pressing the button--literally a button--on my sleeve); Kudo and Hattori already knew that I might not answer, but what the hell.

"Hi, Kaito," Hattori yelled. I turned down the volume more, even though it was already below normal levels. Luckily, Kudo shushed him.

They started telling me all about their cooking expedition (Heiji had cut his finger and, from what I understood, Conan and Kazuha had sulked for a half hour as Heiji blushed when Ran held his hand to fix the cut) and were still snarling at each other as Nakamori brought me inside to see Sky. Aoko followed behind me as I entered the police building.

The aquamarine was pristine, a beautiful, pear-cut, forget-me-not blue gem.

"Gorgeous." I picked it up carefully in my gloved hands. "Estimated worth..?"

"Two million yen," Nakamori said proudly.

I saw Aoko gazing fondly at it, and said, "Do you want to hold it?"

She hesitated, unsure if she should trust a world-reknowned thief. I smiled. "It's okay," I murmured, "Use this so the oils in your skin won't damage it."

I gave her a white handkerchief and put Sky carefully in it. She looked at it eagerly, and I started telling her stories of aquamarines and other gems. I felt like Kuroba Kaito again; though of course I was still Kid.

As we waited for midnight, Aoko followed Nakamori and me around, listening to my instructions, understanding the plan, never hindering us. I constantly glanced back to make sure she was still awake; it was so late in the night.

At eleven, when most officers were already yawning and grunting off to sleep, she was sitting with me in the lobby, Nakamori having gone off to finalize the helicopters: it seemed three pilots had a contagious sickness and would be unable to fly a plane.

"Thanks for the stories," Aoko murmured to me.

"'S'nothing."

Just then I felt something press at my shoulder. I looked down; she'd fallen asleep. I quickly laid her head down on the cushions instead. More comfortable. I considered giving her my jacket, but she already had a pretty thick one. I sat cross-legged in front of her, my cape flowing back, and brushed off her hair. I simply watched her for a long time, relishing her peaceful face.

"Kid, we're all clear - " Nakamori started, but stopped when he saw me sitting so close, smiling at her.

"She just slept," I said hastily. "Sorry - I'm coming."

I hurried to the roof, worried. I wonder what Nakamori was going to think if Kid suddenly started looking like that at his only daughter. That thought was unstoppable; I mentally shouted it down, blushing.

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Hakuba POV next time~

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Ah well. Here's the one-week-late update. I'm back to -hard- school. This is really long.

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I scoffed in frustration as I struggled to retrieve the pin I was using to unlock my handcuffs. Luckily, from what I felt, the floor was solid and flat.

I was blindfolded, handcuffed, and had a rope around my feet. The rope would be easiest to cut or untie; I just needed my hands.

I was just trying to locate my pin when something vibrated briefly at my wrist. Confused, I glanced down at it. Looked normal. I looked closer, and heard a faint voice.

"Testing, testing. If you can hear me, respond. I'll hear you," a most familiar smooth voice said.

I wasn't surprised. "What an honor, to have Kaitou Kid's mic in my watch."

"Yesss," he said triumphantly, ignoring me. "Anyway, this isn't a mic. It's a tracker too."

Still not surprised.. "So, where am I?"

"The top of Tokyo Tower," he said. "Are you hurt? I promised the police you'd come back safe."

"Nope. Just stiff. I haven't moved much in hours."

"That's okay, then," he said. "I'm at the back of the helicopter, we're heading toward you. Your kidnapper said to meet me there. Speaking of, where is he?"

"The floor below me," I said at once. "I've been hearing his voice from below. Seems he's talking to someone about the gem."

"What did they say?" he said. I imagined him staring at the aquamarine, or maybe turning it around in his hands, if he was holding it.

"That its name was Sky, how much it was worth, and how to distinguish the original. Their criteria are right."

"Don't worry, I won't trick them. Not regarding the gem, anyway." I know he was smirking, and he probably knew I was rolling my eyes.

"We're here," he said. "I can see the kidnapper. I'll keep the watch open."

"Okay," I said. Sure enough, I heard the chopper outside, and one person mutter, "They're here.. go get the boy."

An unfamiliar man opened the trapdoor, and grabbed my arm to pull me down. I landed painfully on the floor.

"Nothing funny," he growled.

"I'm not about to crack a joke."

He grinned. "Getting smart with me, eh? Maybe this will shut you up."

He started installing something around me. I would have struggled, but it was a bomb, the kind that was set off by a separate controller.

"One wrong move," he said, "This bomb is designed to kill only people within a foot's range.. that will only be you."

Kid vibrated my watch to say that he heard that. For once, I was beginning to trust him.

The man hobbled away from me, and their boss - the one who called Kid - went forward to address the dozens of choppers that were outside.

"Only Kid comes," he announced into a mic that was probably in his collar. "Or else I kill this boy."

He stepped aside to show me. The choppers twitched away from Tokyo Tower. Kid hopped from one and soared over, pure white as always. I saw a mic under his right collar, and a small, straight cut on the bottom of his hat nearest his ear.

"My, my," he said, looking at me. "He looks terrible." My watch vibrated twice.

"Careful, Kid-kun," the boss said, his voice a melody unique. "As you see, one small move -- and this charming young man is.. gone."

He held up the remote control, with an overblown red button. Greater chance of hitting it by accident, but Kid would know that; sure enough, his hand twitched, but only I saw that.

"Give me the gem," he said, in a lazy voice again.

"Hakuba-kun - "

Maybe it was out of amusement. Maybe he was insane. Maybe he just wanted to see Kid bleeding profusely. Either way, a gun slid down his sleeve and the boss shot Kid in the shoulder: if he hadn't seen it at the last moment, it would have hit him smack in the heart. Kid kneeled in pain, but didn't drop the gem.

"Guns.. are.. for - c-cowards."

"You want to die so bad, huh? You disappoint me, Kid.. I was expecting better."

"L-let Hakuba-kun.. go."

He glanced at me. "Why do you want him to live? He's just a civilian that stupid woman picked."

Kid smirked, half-covered in blood. He'd finally put the gem in his pocket and clutched his shoulder, and was gasping harder. "Who.. was th-that woman? Sh-she isn't.. one of you."

"Another thief," he said, clearly relishing the sight of Kid breaking down. "A woman I hired to steal for me."

"And she failed," I said quietly. "You told her you'd let her join up, out of fake mercy, just so she could hire the next thief for you. Then you killed her in the car, almost killing me in the process.."

He nodded slowly, not taking his eyes off Kid's right pocket, and raising the gun slowly again. Reluctantly, Kid threw it to him, a stunning blue gem, the color only an aquamarine could have. The boss caught it; he fingered it lovingly as he raised the remote and said, "Too bad your friend won't live to appreciate it."

I wasn't scared. I knew Kid too well to know he wasn't prepared for that. In an instant, he pulled out his famed card gun and hit him smack on the wrist - causing the small remote with the big red button to fall out the window. "Oh, dammit." I'm gonna die. I knew it. "Kid, you idiot."

He was too busy sedating the boss (through unnoticed injection to his arm, I noticed) and dodging everyone who was attacking him to reply, but he called to me calmly, as though he hadn't lost an eighth of his blood and he were still mocking me after he'd just slipped from my most careful plan. "It's not.. over."

I looked at the window hopelessly, waiting for the blow. But perched there was a dove, brilliantly white, with its head tilted and its wings flapping, the remote control at its feet.




"Just another day.. as Kid," I told Hakuba, still gasping, though I was recovering really quick. The blood had stopped flowing. Kudo said quietly, "Now, is the bomb just the black box-thing with two flashing lights?"

"Yes."

"Who are you talking to?" Hakuba asked me.

"A bomb disposal team.. I hired for you." I looked up. "Pleased?"

"Don't let him hear us," Hattori said. "He knows us from before."

"I know." It was easy to disguise that.

Shinichi and Heiji alternately dictated instructions, which I'd followed by the small disposal kit - mainly alternates for those you can really use - they told me to prepare. Hakuba sat as still as possible, checking what I was doing and speaking to the 'disposal team' through my mic.

"Now, the flashing lights should have stopped." Hattori said, "If it didn't, ask Hakuba-kun what we missed."

"No, it stopped. It's safe now, right?"

"Yep." Kudo sighed. "Oh, yeah. From the sounds of it, you've been shot and are bleeding hard, so first: don't be stupid to let it keep flowing 'cause you could die from blood loss, and you should know that - "

"The blood stopped flowing already," I said irritably.

" - and second, careful not to leave any amount of blood on him or his clothes. He'll do a DNA test on you for sure. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a kit at home," Hattori continued.

"I know," I said again, and it was with difficulty that I stopped from saying "idiots".

Once I'd removed the bomb and Hakuba's handcuffs, he said, "I can take it from here."

Couldn't have said it better. I picked up the fallen aquamarine and gave it to him, then dispatched the dove to bring a note to the police station that said I was done. Before I left, I took off my necktie and wrapped it around my shoulder, so drops of my blood wouldn't fall when I flew.

"I leave any blood on you?" I asked Hakuba. Hattori muttered, "Idiot." "I don't want to give away my identity so easily, you know."

He looked at his clothes. "No, but I think the bomb does."

"Take the bomb with you, Kuroba-kun. It shouldn't detonate anymore. It's too risky. He'll take it."

"Okay," I said, but not to Kudo. "See you, Saguru."

He grinned, stood to pick up the bomb, and threw it out the nearest window as I jumped from the adjacent one.

"Are. You. Insane?!" Kudo asked me, both awed and annoyed. "After all your efforts of keeping it a secret from him?"

"You didn't see it," I told him, the wind whooshing through the mic. "He threw it out the window. He isn't even going to get a sample from the floor. He'll injure himself and tell the police it was his blood."

"You know him that well, huh."

"No, I just know that - like you two - you wouldn't want to find out my identity so easily. I figured it'd be the same for him."

"Well, you're right," Hattori said. "We did find out the hard way. Kaitou Kid is a mystery so complex that a simple solution like that is - if I may say, unworthy."

"That brings tears to my eyes," I said. "Or is that just the wind?"

"Oh well - case closed," Kudo said. "Cool."

"Thanks, guys. See you 'round."

I was glad they hung up, 'cause I was just landing in the police station's lobby. Aoko was still asleep, and someone had thrown a red blanket over her. Nakamori, I guess.

I watched her sleeping for a while, and slipped a note on the floor beside her.

Hakuba Saguru-kun is safe. Thank you for spending your time with me.
I'll see you again someday, I promise.
Kaitou Kid

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I'd been dreading class the next day, but it would be too obvious if I didn't attend. Still, I was suspicious to them, 'cause the only one who yawned as much as me that day was Hakuba himself.

All day long, when we were out of sight of our teachers, they would pass around speculations as to who Kid was; Hakuba and I couldn't care less. We were the ones who generally stayed out of conversation, aside from some others who were cramming studying for a quiz we had in the last period.

Aoko was surprisingly active in the discussion, firing off theories of every boy (they were doing it by.. well, no particular order, they were just counting it off) and moving on to the next only when the possibility was completely eliminated.

Hakuba, of course, was crossed off the list without any thought. Luckily, they started with the boys in the discussion itself, so I was mentioned only at the near end of the conversation.

"What about Kaito-kun?" Keiko asked. Akako and Hakuba twitched, but I said lazily, "I have an alibi. Call Mom if you want to. I was reading Arsene Lupin that time."

Of course, Mom always knew when I was out on a heist, or on some other business such as the Sky thing, and it was either her or Jii-chan who helped me cook up an alibi.

"He called me last night," Akako said quickly, and everybody looked at her, "to ask for any news. On Hakuba-kun, of course."

"I called her 'cause Aoko wasn't answering," I said, lying flawlessly. "You were already asleep, I guess."

"No, I broke my phone yesterday," she said, then turned back to the debate group. "Okay, that eliminates Kaito." Sounds like I died. "Who's next?"

As they moved one, Hakuba yawned leisurely, and said, two chairs away, "Smooth."

"Okay, I wasn't reading Arsene Lupin." I grinned. "It was Sherlock Holmes."

"Lie."

"Hercule Poirot? I still have Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

He rolled his eyes, and turned away from me, preferring to watch Aoko head the group.

Later on, when Aoko and I were walking home, she put my own note into my hand.

"This is.."

"Yeah."

"From Kid?! Dang, you charmed a world-class thief?"

"You're jealous?" she asked me, smirking, leaning forward to look at me, if I was blushing in the sunset.

How could I be jealous of myself?.. But she can't know that yet. "Well, he has to be nice enough before he passes through me."

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